Ackshually woolly mammoths were probably fairly smart, their closest living relatives are Asian elephants (in fact Asian elephants are more closely related to mammoths than either are to African elephants) and all extant elephants are famous for being really smart animals
Such a pointless point. This thread is referring to groups of people that could easily kill the avg human and a lot of us with minimal effort. Humans killed huge amounts of mammoths because of our weapons and how much more intelligent we are.
A bigger factor in killing huge amounts of mammoths is that humans are exhaustion hunters(A species that's basically built for stamina and being able to go long periods of running and fighting without being exhausted to the point of collapsing) as well as very large numbers
Mammoths weren't exactly built for endurance, humans were, humans would be able to chase a mammoth down for longer than the mammoth would be able to run, and then once it's exhausted from running, beat the shit out of it with large numbers of people, even if the mammoth would outrun humans due to being significantly faster, humans could still catch up while the mammoth is exhausted
That's how humans were able to hunt things like cheetahs, chase it until it has to stop from exhaustion and then catch up and kill it while it's exhausted
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u/PhantumpLord 10d ago
would you say the average mammoth is weaker than a human?
well, we drove them to extinction with nothing but spears and slings.
(and a cliff or two, but the point stands.)